Squamous cell cancer. Prophylaxis after

Hi  everyone. I would like to know the opinions of those who have experience with regencorr. I am just starting to use the cream, but after reading the instructions three times I still have not found the answers to a couple of important and basic questions for me. Firstly, I had a squamous cell cancer treatment a month and a half ago, several tumours, surgical removal on my face and radiation on my head, scalp area. I use the cream as a prophylactic, but the skin area on my head has not healed very well. I have had bacterial infections and treatment with antibiotics.  The instructions for use of regencorr mention that it can also be used after radiotherapy but there is no mention of poorly healing scars. So the question is, can I use the cream under these circumstances and still have to use the antibiotic ointment?                              I have several small areas of skin with actinic keratosis. A couple of them have severe inflammation, cracking and bruising. Can I apply cream with severe skin inflammation and cracking?  Should I allow or avoid applying regencorr cream to bleeding, ulcerated skin areas or apply the cream around them?

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  • Hi Lanlan. As far as I know, regencorr not just can but should be applied to such areas of skin, regardless of the cracks in the skin. When I had basal cancer removed, three tumours, so I started applying cream to all the sutures and scars after a week. I applied the cream both on and around the scar, which is often recommended. And the fact that your scar doesn't heal after radiotherapy is a common problem. If I were you, I would add regencorr cream to the ointment containing the antibiotic and mix and treat the skin area that has been exposed.  Note, when cancer patients are given chemotherapy, they may be injected with immune boosting drugs at the same time.  I remember that even my husband, when he was on antibiotics, the doctor prescribed restorative probiotics at the same time.   Have you taken any medicines during the last year, which are marked as prohibited in the instructions, for those who have a history of skin cancer? Like blood pressure lowering drugs? By the way, don't forget, antibiotics are particularly highlighted there.

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  • Hi Lanlan. As far as I know, regencorr not just can but should be applied to such areas of skin, regardless of the cracks in the skin. When I had basal cancer removed, three tumours, so I started applying cream to all the sutures and scars after a week. I applied the cream both on and around the scar, which is often recommended. And the fact that your scar doesn't heal after radiotherapy is a common problem. If I were you, I would add regencorr cream to the ointment containing the antibiotic and mix and treat the skin area that has been exposed.  Note, when cancer patients are given chemotherapy, they may be injected with immune boosting drugs at the same time.  I remember that even my husband, when he was on antibiotics, the doctor prescribed restorative probiotics at the same time.   Have you taken any medicines during the last year, which are marked as prohibited in the instructions, for those who have a history of skin cancer? Like blood pressure lowering drugs? By the way, don't forget, antibiotics are particularly highlighted there.

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  • Hi. My doctor's words are upsetting me. He says that if the area of skin that has been irradiated doesn't heal, I will have to have surgery. My doctor says that I have a poor immune system and therefore the skin at the site of the irradiation is not healing. I have tried to apply regencorr to the ulcers and dab the cracks in the skin. The observation is that for some time the skin itched, the sores became slightly inflamed, swollen and very red. Three hours later, the inflammation subsided.  About the antibiotics, I remember. The instructions for regencorr lists many medicines that can increase the likelihood of sunburn, but I still don't know if all these medicines are strictly prohibited, or if their use should just be reduced, or to find alternatives? It is interesting that I am using antibiotics in two forms, tablets and ointment. The note on the tablets says that their use increases the sensitivity to the sun, but I have not found any such warning in the ointment's instructions. Do you think that if I mix regencorr into the antibiotic ointment at a concentration of 1:3 it will be enough?

  • What your doctor is saying is strange. What does your basic immunity and the inability of your skin, after radiation, to resist the bacteria have to do with it. Anyone can have normal immunity, but after radiotherapy and irradiation of an area of skin, that area of skin will have all of its immune cells killed. And that area of skin becomes problematic and takes quite a long time to recover. This is one of the reasons why I refused radiotherapy.  Which products and drugs are more dangerous for us, which ones are less so, now in various communities they have started discussing, we need to keep track.

    On the one hand, in my opinion, the ointment and antibiotic cream should be mixed in equal proportions, BUT the antibiotic concentration should not be lowered either. Maybe you should try 1:1 but add antibiotic powder, to increase the concentration, for example ceftriaxone powder. Two antibiotics are better than one in one mixture + regencorr. My husband always said that infections should be treated with two or three antibiotics in case one of them is resistant.